Other Nations Want to Make Their Own Vaccines as US Pulls Back

At least a dozen countries are interested in developing their own vaccines because they’re losing confidence that the US government will have immunizations ready for the next pandemic, a top biotech investor said.

Other nations have largely depended on the US to make shots that are deployed globally. The Covid-19 vaccines, developed by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. and embraced by the US government, were used by tens of millions of people around the world.

But under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US government has ended contracts to make vaccines using new technology. And now, countries aren’t ...